Duke Parsa slumped against the chair leg, his head tilted, drooling from his mouth, like a stroke patient. After a long while, he turned to look at Luo Ling and said, "I underestimated you. I like your crazy attitude. If it were a few years earlier, I would have pursued you."
"It seems you need to sober up." Luo Ling raised her hand again.
"Okay! This back and forth torture is meaningless. You have to know, I'm telling you, talking about these things won't solve any problems, the people who deserve to die will still die..." Duke Parsa stretched out his hands tremblingly, propped himself up, leaned on the coffee table, looked at Luo Ling blankly and said, "Just ask whatever you want to ask."
"Who came up with the plan to release the demonized bacteria, which you call the epidemic? How did you implement it step by step? Tell me everything honestly." Luo Ling said seriously.
"Bacteria? Is that what you call it? Ha, you really want to come up with a new name for everything. Bacteria are bacteria." The Duke's voice still sounded a little weird, and the effect of the mental whipping just now was still affecting his spirit. "Those people in the capital think that I am a tyrannical person. But they don't know that I have learned a lot of things in order to win the battle. The books they have read in their entire lives are not as many as I have read in a year. I say this not to brag about my erudition, but the more books I read, the more I know. You know I have conquered many lords. I accidentally got a diary from a treasure house of a certain family. It came from a man named Cardoza.
More than four hundred years ago, when it was still the Black Dragon Empire, a small principality rose up at the junction of the Black Dragon Empire and the Purple Eagle Empire. Their Duke at the time, Cardosa, was a magician and alchemist, but secretly he was a necromancer who was proficient in undead magic and had extensive research on curses and diseases.
He has always had an idea, which is to control diseases, tame them, and use these terrible things as his weapons. He believes that as long as he can master the pain of a person, he can make the other person serve him. It must be said that he is a genius. He invented many diseases that can be used as weapons to attack others in his life. This method that is difficult to be discovered by others has helped him secretly eliminate many enemies and turned him from a ruined duke's heir to one of the most powerful local people.
But Cardoza's ambitions were not limited to this. He was not satisfied with being a duke. He wanted to establish a country that did not belong to the Black Dragon Empire and the Purple Eagle Empire. However, his strength was far behind those of the two old powers, so he thought of the most terrible disease - plague. In his opinion, as long as he could eliminate the kings and major nobles of the two countries through a continent-wide plague, he would have a chance to rise in the chaos.
But before he could accomplish this, he was discovered by the people of the Temple of Nature. Haha, but even if he was discovered, Cardosa still launched his incomplete plague weapon, causing a moderate plague. I checked other books and found that about 2,000 people died in the Black Dragon Empire and the Purple Eagle Empire. Although Cardosa died, his method of making plague weapons was secretly passed down by his assistant, and I found and funded the descendant of this assistant, an alchemist who has a deep understanding of the things left by his ancestors. "
"This doesn't sound like something that has just been planned." Luo Ling said.
"Of course, the plague weapon took me nearly ten years and countless golden axes. It was originally intended for the Imperials. But a year ago, I found a group of opponents more terrifying than the Imperials appeared around me. Yes, I provoked you first, but even a fool knows that even if I didn't provoke you, would you let me go when you become stronger? I can see it from what you did in Arano Town. If I didn't fight back, I would only die a few months later. I had no choice but to use this trick on you." The Duke's spirits recovered a little when he said this, and he looked at Luo Ling with a gloating expression, "As for the effect, we will know soon."
"Where is the alchemist?" Luo Ling asked.
"Haha, he's dead. He was riding in the carriage with Julio that day, and your companion smashed his head with a hammer." said the Duke.
"Did he leave any medicine to cure the disease?" Luo Ling asked.
"No. Creso tried to make an antidote, but this blackwater disease, which evolved from black spot disease, is very stubborn, and he didn't find an effective method until the end." The Duke shook his head gently, "Otherwise I wouldn't have to evacuate Green Forest City so early. I could have set a more thorough trap for you. And I wouldn't have been caught by you outside and become a prisoner."
Chen Hansheng took out a small test tube from his storage ring, which contained a little black liquid. "Maybe we should let this bastard feel what it's like to be sick, so as to help him tell the truth."
Chen Hansheng came over and squatted beside the Duke, putting the thin-looking glass test tube against his mouth.
"It's useless. I'm not afraid of death. If I were, I should have stopped this plan when you caught me. You poured this can of unknown substance into my mouth. At most, you created a new source of spread. It won't do you any good at all."
"Maybe you can use him as a test subject for the disease. There are many treatment methods, and you can try them on him one by one." Chen Hansheng said in a vicious tone.
"If you insist on doing this, there's nothing I can do." The Duke looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.
"Old Chen, let him go first. His mental fluctuations are very stable, so maybe he is not lying." Luo Ling said, "Then tell me the location of all the infection sources."
"I don't know. You should ask Bocas about this. He made all the specific arrangements. Our plan was that once he received the letter from me asking him to surrender, he would give the potion to the death row prisoners arranged in various parts of the city. However, it's too late now. According to this time, the first group of people have already fallen ill, and Bocas had already slipped away using the pre-arranged teleportation array, right?"
"Don't you know? Bocas also swallowed the potion himself. He died." Luo Ling said.
"What! Dead? How is that possible!" Duke Parsa was stunned.
"Maybe he still feels a little ashamed." Luo Ling said.
"Shame?" Duke Parsa suddenly laughed out loud, and he coughed and even cried. "Fool, what a soft-hearted fool you are."
He stopped laughing and looked at Luo Ling indifferently. "In that case, I have said everything I need to say. I wish you good luck."